Thuburnica (see)


Thuburnica is a former Roman city and bishopric, presently a Catholic titular see.

History

The Ancient city of Thuburnica, in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis, was important enough to become a bishopric, suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Carthage.

Ancient Bishopric

Very Little is known of the ancient Bishopric. Only one Bishop is known, Aeneaus a catholic Bishop at the Council of Carthage 411.

Titular see

In 1933, the Ancient diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular see.
It has had the following incumbents, of the lowest rank, with a single archiepiscopal exception :